classics and ict helen lowe and ana martin [email protected] [email protected]
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Classics and ICT• There is a limitless and ever-expanding bank of both general
teaching aids and subject specific resources available for PC, Mac and iPad:– Classroom management, recording student data and achievement, etc
– Workflow and file management
– Images, audio, video, movie creation and editing
– Web based programs: lessons, flashcards, quizzes
– Online content curation
– Software
– Apps for iPad and iPhone (and some Android)
– Online courses
The role of ICT
Receptive skills
LISTENING
READING
Productive skills
SPEAKING
WRITING
Our aims
• to reflect on the importance of all four skills for teaching and learning• to give ICT examples for developing
each skill• to share experiences• to share good – and bad – practice
Listening – Latin
In class• CLC program and website• ARLT website audio section• Other sources: podcasts in
iTunesU, Nuntii Latini• Uses:
– comprehension questions– V an F?– fill-in the blanks– physical response, etc.
At home• VLE: videos/sound recording
by students and teacher (including songs)
• Uses: – Oscar– individual revision and
practice– singing, etc.
Acquiring the language
naturally
Listening – Class Civ
Flip your classroom• Teacher creates video
tutorials or podcasts that students must listen to before the lesson
• More blended teaching: MOOC, Open University, YouTube, podcasts
• Audiobooks
Multimedia classroom• Linking music/sound effects
to the text:– Musicalising text– OST or ‘guess what character
listens to this’
• Responding to a text, responding to multimedia
Catering for all learning needs
Speaking – Latin
The role of multimedia• Enables monitoring and
self-assessment• Comprehensible output• Ideas:
– Film-making, podcasts, tutorials, poetic readings
– ‘video, video’
The tools• Hardware: flipcams,
microphones, mobile phones
• Software: audacity, movie maker, garage band, etc
Monitoring and self-
assessment
Speaking – Class Civ
The aims• Catering to all learning
needs• Manipulating, creating,
negotiating, emulating, inspiring
• Personal response
Some ideas• Students prepare video tutorials
or podcasts for VLE• On trips: documentaries, news
features• Soap operas, PuppetPals vel sim.• Quotation games• Banks of images to trigger
discussion/top trumps • Games on screen: races, uncover
the picture, ‘who wants to be a millionaire’,
Students as ‘prosumers’
ReadingThere are countless ICT resources for subject-specific reading matter• A good Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) /
Intranet / school network will have – a calendar or appointments facility to set assignments
with specific texts, sources or areas on which to focus– pages for texts, documents and other materials,
internal and external links• Provide access to targeted reading via links to:– internal pages or files– online websites or files
Reading
Create your own reading materials and learning resources• Use a program or app to provide the required
information, for example:– Cram for flashcards and games– Memrise or Cram for vocabulary and grammar
input – SlideShark, Prezi or Nearpod for presentations
Writing
Use a program or app to:• check knowledge and understanding• collate results and produce progress reports• gather student feedback How?• Tests and quizzes: multiple choice and open-
ended questions, e.g. Nearpod, Socrative, Vocab Express
• Questionnaires, e.g. Survey Monkey, Google forms
Writing
Use online storage and collaboration for written tasks –develops research skills and independent learning:• undertake group projects, e.g. Evernote• “take in” assignments, e.g. Dropbox,
Google Drive, iCloud, SkyDrive• create online conversations through a blog or forum
on a VLE or online site, e.g. WordPress, Google Blogger
• live “discussions” with designated Twitter or Facebook groups
Classics, ICT and Europe
• CIRCE project – a Classics and ICT Resource Course for Europe for resources, contacts etc (but now superseded by ERASMUS+):http://www.circe.be
• ERASMUS+ – the new EU funding programme for eduation, training, youth and sport http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk)
• eTwinning – the community for schools in Europehttp://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm
Options
• ERASMUS+ – the new EU funding programme for education, training, youth and sport http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk)
• eTwinning – the community for schools in Europehttp://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm– Connect, collaborate (forums etc)and get free
online CPD
For more information
See:• Classics and ICT resources, computer program
s, iPad apps• iPads in education – iPad practical issues
Keep in touch!
Do you have any apps that:• you particularly like• work particularly well for teaching / learning• are great in the classroom• make it easy to share work• allow you to interact with a classroom of students
equipped with iPads/tablet PC• etc…?!Let us know!
Contact Us
• Helen Lowee: [email protected]: 07748 096448• Ana Martin
e: [email protected]: 01923 825446